Computed tomography examination of the face of Macaca anderssoni (Early Pleistocene, Henan, northern China): Implications for the biogeographic history of Asian macaques

Metastatic melanoma is an aggressive disease that can spread to many organs of the body. In rare cases, it can spread to the gallbladder causing secondary lesions, yet presenting with little to no symptoms. Therefore, most cases of metastatic melanoma lesions to the gallbladder go undiagnosed. Here, we present the case of a 41-year-old male with a four-month history of melanoma of the face, with a postresection status, who presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Doppler ultrasound and computed tomography confirmed the presence of a mass on the gallbladder. Laparoscopic excision along with liver wedge resection was performed. Pathology staining revealed the presence of a malignant metastatic melanoma lesion of the gallbladder.

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An insight into the evolutionary history of Indoplanorbis exustus (Bulinidae: Gastropoda)at the scale of population and species

10.1101/2021.05.28.446081 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Maitreya Sil ◽

Juveriya Mahveen ◽

Abhishikta Roy ◽

K. Praveen Karanth ◽

N. A. Aravind

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Reconstruction ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Early Pleistocene ◽

Coi Gene ◽

Population Fluctuations ◽

Climatic Fluctuations ◽

Biogeographic History ◽

Putative Species ◽

Indoplanorbis Exustus ◽

History Of

The history of a lineage is intertwined with the history of the landscape it resides in. Here we showcase how the geo-tectonic and climatic evolution in South Asia and surrounding landmasses have shaped the biogeographic history of Indoplanorbis exustus, a tropical Asian, freshwater, pulmonated snail. We amplified partial COI gene fragment from all over India and combined this with a larger dataset from South and Southeast Asia to carry out phylogenetic reconstruction, species delimitation analysis, and population genetic analyses. Two nuclear genes were also amplified from one individual per putative species to carry out divergence dating and ancestral area reconstruction analyses. The results suggest that Indoplanorbis dispersed out of Africa into India during Eocene. Furthermore, molecular data suggests Indoplanorbis is a species complex consisting of multiple putative species. The primary diversification took place in Northern Indian plains or the Northeast India. The speciation events appear to be primarily allopatric caused by a series of aridification events starting from late Miocene to early Pleistocene. None of the species seemed to have any underlying genetic structure suggestive of high vagility. All the species underwent population fluctuations during the Pleistocene likely driven by the Quaternary climatic fluctuations.

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Hypercarnivorous teeth and healed injuries to Canis chihliensis from Early Pleistocene Nihewan beds, China, support social hunting for ancestral wolves

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.9858 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. e9858

Author(s):

Haowen Tong ◽

Xi Chen ◽

Bei Zhang ◽

Bruce Rothschild ◽

Stuart White ◽

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Keyword(s):

Large Body ◽

Family Care ◽

Northern China ◽

Early Pleistocene ◽

History Of ◽

Behavioral Evidence ◽

Displaced Fracture ◽

Canis Dirus ◽

Dire Wolf ◽

Rancho La Brea

Collaborative hunting by complex social groups is a hallmark of large dogs (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae), whose teeth also tend to be hypercarnivorous, specialized toward increased cutting edges for meat consumption and robust p4-m1 complex for cracking bone. The deep history of canid pack hunting is, however, obscure because behavioral evidence is rarely preserved in fossils. Dated to the Early Pleistocene (>1.2 Ma), Canis chihliensis from the Nihewan Basin of northern China is one of the earliest canines to feature a large body size and hypercarnivorous dentition. We present the first known record of dental infection in C. chihliensis, likely inflicted by processing hard food, such as bone. Another individual also suffered a displaced fracture of its tibia and, despite such an incapacitating injury, survived the trauma to heal. The long period required for healing the compound fracture is consistent with social hunting and family care (food-sharing) although alternative explanations exist. Comparison with abundant paleopathological records of the putatively pack-hunting Late Pleistocene dire wolf, Canis dirus, at the Rancho La Brea asphalt seeps in southern California, U.S.A., suggests similarity in feeding behavior and sociality between Chinese and American Canis across space and time. Pack hunting in Canis may be traced back to the Early Pleistocene, well before the appearance of modern wolves, but additional evidence is needed for confirmation.

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Refractory Ascites as the Only Presenting Symptom of Chronic Calcified Constrictive Pericarditis: A Diagnostic Challenge

The Heart Surgery Forum ◽

10.1532/hsf98.2013251 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 42

Author(s):

Shi-Min Yuan

Keyword(s):

Computed Tomography ◽

Liver Cirrhosis ◽

Female Patient ◽

Constrictive Pericarditis ◽

Delayed Diagnosis ◽

Young Female ◽

Refractory Ascites ◽

Diagnostic Challenge ◽

Massive Ascites ◽

History Of

Extracardiac manifestations of constrictive pericarditis, such as massive ascites and liver cirrhosis, often cover the true situation and lead to a delayed diagnosis. A young female patient was referred to this hospital due to a 4-year history of refractory ascites as the only presenting symptom. A diagnosis of chronic calcified constrictive pericarditis was eventually established based on echocardiography, ultrasonography, and computed tomography. Cardiac catheterization was not performed. Pericardiectomy led to relief of her ascites. Refractory ascites warrants thorough investigation for constrictive pericarditis.

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Luxury Communist Jesus

Postscripts The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds ◽

10.1558/post.v7i3.28299 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 245-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael J. Sandford

Keyword(s):

Work Ethic ◽

Protestant Work Ethic ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

The Protestant Work Ethic

This article begins by outlining contemporary anti-work politics, which form the basis of Sandford’s reading. After providing a brief history of anti-work politics, Sandford examines recent scholarly treatments of Jesus’ relationship to work. An examination of a number of texts across the gospel traditions leads Sandford to argue that Jesus can be read as a ‘luxury communist’ whose behaviour flies in the face of the Protestant work ethic. Ultimately, Sandford foregrounds those texts in which Jesus discourages his followers from working, and undermines work as an ‘end in itself’, contextualising these statements in relation to other gospel texts about asceticism and the redistribution of wealth.

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Filthy Material

10.1093/oso/9780190840860.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Chris Forster

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

New Media ◽

Twentieth Century Literature ◽

Modernist Literature ◽

Literary Value ◽

Radclyffe Hall ◽

Media Technologies ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

The Media

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of such figures as James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts of twentieth-century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and the Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes in the history of media. The emergence of film, photography, and new printing technologies shaped how “literary value” was understood, altering how obscenity was defined and which texts were considered obscene. Filthy Material rereads the history of modernist obscenity to discover the role played by technological media in debates about obscenity. The shift from the intense censorship of the early twentieth century to the effective “end of obscenity” for literature at the middle of the century was not simply a product of cultural liberalization but also of a changing media ecology. Filthy Material brings together media theory and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity with novel readings of works of modernist literature. It sheds new light on figures at the center of modernism’s obscenity trials (such as Joyce and Lawrence), demonstrates the relevance of the discourse of obscenity to understanding figures not typically associated with obscenity debates (such as T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis), and introduces new figures to our account of modernism (such as Norah James and Jack Kahane). It reveals how modernist obscenity reflected a contest over the literary in the face of new media technologies.

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Can an Adulteress Save Jesus? the Pericope Adulterae, Feminist Interpretation, and the Limits of Narrative Agency

10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0024 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Knust

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Feminist Interpretation ◽

Narrative Agency ◽

The Status ◽

The Face ◽

History Of

The pericope adulterae (John 7:53–8:11) is often interpreted as an inherently feminist story, one that validates women’s humanity in the face of a patriarchal order determined to reduce sexual sinners and women more generally to the status of object. Reading this story within a framework of queer narratology, however, leads to a different point of view, one that challenges the consequences of seeking rescue from a god and a text that are both quite willing to forge male homosocial bonds at a woman’s expense. As the history of this story also shows, texts and their meanings remain unsettled and therefore open to further unpredictable and contingent elaboration. Pondering my own feminist commitments, I attempt to imagine a world and a story where a woman is a person and Jesus is in need of rescue. Perhaps such a world is possible. Or perhaps it is not.

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Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300

10.1093/oso/9780198798897.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Elisabeth van Houts

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Married Couple ◽

Self Determination ◽

Emotional Life ◽

Social And Emotional ◽

Individual Agency ◽

Married Life ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

The Individual

This book contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe c. 900–1300. The focus will be on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage. The book consists of three parts: the first part (Getting Married) is devoted to the process of getting married and wedding celebrations, the second part (Married Life) discusses the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage, while the third part (Alternative Living) explores concubinage and polygyny as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. Four main themes are central to the book. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member’s freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.

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Renaissance Mass Murder

10.1093/oso/9780198832614.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stephen D. Bowd

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Social History ◽

Historical Context ◽

Mass Murder ◽

Early Modern Europe ◽

Contemporary Culture ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

Italian Wars ◽

Human Tragedy

Renaissance Mass Murder explores the devastating impact of war on the men and women of the Renaissance. In contrast to the picture of balance and harmony usually associated with the Renaissance, it uncovers in forensic detail a world in which sacks of Italian cities and massacres of civilians at the hands of French, German, Spanish, Swiss, and Italian troops were regular occurrences. The arguments presented are based on a wealth of evidence—histories and chronicles, poetry and paintings, sculpture and other objects—which together provide a new and startling history of sixteenth-century Italy and a social history of the Italian Wars. It outlines how massacres happened, how princes, soldiers, lawyers, and writers, justified and explained such events, and how they were represented in contemporary culture. On this basis the book reconstructs the terrifying individual experiences of civilians in the face of war and in doing so offers a story of human tragedy which redresses the balance of the history of the Italian Wars, and of Renaissance warfare, in favour of the civilian and away from the din of the battlefield. This book also places mass murder in a broader historical context and challenges claims that such violence was unusual or in decline in early modern Europe. Finally, it shows that women often suffered disproportionately from this violence and that immunity for them, as for their children, was often partially developed or poorly respected.

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Epilogue: On the Current and Future State of Historical Writing

10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0034 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Allan Megill

Keyword(s):

Historical Writing ◽

Conceptual Difficulty ◽

Universal History ◽

The Past ◽

Initial Decision ◽

Future State ◽

The Face ◽

History Of

This epilogue argues that historians ought to be able to produce a universal history, one that would ‘cover’ the past of humankind ‘as a whole’. However, aside from the always increasing difficulty of mastering the factual material that such an undertaking requires, there exists another difficulty: the coherence of universal history always presupposes an initial decision not to write about the human past in all its multiplicity, but to focus on one aspect of that past. Nevertheless, the lure of universal history will persist, even in the face of its practical and conceptual difficulty. Certainly, it is possible to imagine a future ideological convergence among humans that would enable them to accept, as authoritative, one history of humankind.

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